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Immigrant Women in Athens - Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Hardcover)
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Immigrant Women in Athens - Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History
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Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical
Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with
assumptions of being 'sexually exploitable.' Despite recent
scholarship on women in Athens beyond notions of the 'citizen wife'
and the 'common prostitute,' the scholarship on women, both citizen
and foreign, is focused almost exclusively on women in the
reproductive and sexual economy of the city. This book examines the
position of metic women in Classical Athens, to understand the
social and economic role of metic women in the city, beyond the
sexual labor market. This book contributes to two important aspects
of the history of life in 5th century Athens: it explores our
knowledge of metics, a little-researched group, and contributes to
the study if women in antiquity, which has traditionally divided
women socially between citizen-wives and everyone else. This
tradition has wrongly situated metic women, because they could not
legally be wives, as some variety of whores. Author Rebecca Kennedy
critiques the traditional approach to the study of women through an
examination of primary literature on non-citizen women in the
Classical period. She then constructs new approaches to the study
of metic women in Classical Athens that fit the evidence and open
up further paths for exploration. This leading-edge volume advances
the study of women beyond their sexual status and breaks down the
ideological constraints that both Victorians and feminist scholars
reacting to them have historically relied upon throughout the study
of women in antiquity.
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